Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:43:22 -0800 From: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> To: Freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: whats this?! Message-ID: <3C18E8BA.24815.F0A8EDA@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011213173055.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <3C1954A6.8264978A@pantherdragon.org>
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> On 14-Dec-01 Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > >> Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> writes: > >> > type 'cd //' and then do a pwd. > >> > what causes this? found it by accident > >> I get "/" in pdksh, as expected. > >> You might have found a feature of some proprietary shell. > > I wouldn't exactly call bash a proprietary shell: > But it certainly is a buggy shell. :) It's a Bash "feature". Anywhere that you can use / in a path, you can use multiple /'s. It only sees the first one and ignores everything up to the first non-/ character. I've run across this several times in the past, especially with autoconf- generated init.d scripts on Linux systems running Bash1 and Bash2. Even though it shows you multiple slashes, internally it treats them all as one. [shrug] go fig. Cheers, Freddie PhoenixTek Consulting fcash@bigfoot.com Unix / Networking Services (250) 314-4029 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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